About Abdulfattah Adeyemi

There’s power in prayer, it brings us to the Almighty source of all forces. There’s protection in prayer, it’s our defense and shield when we submit totally to the Will of Allah. There’s faith and hope in prayer, it helps us to run the race with endurance, which is an assurance of acceptance. There’s joyfulness [...]

Fasting is about change from the everyday things we use to do. It is to move forwards and upwards from our inertia. It is to do something new, to get accustomed to change and to take charge of our lives and living. It is to say “No!” when we mean to say so, being honest [...]

As we speak, about two billion Muslims from all over the world fast during the month of Ramadan, the ninth lunar month of Islamic calendar. The month also commemorates the revelation of the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), through the Archangel Jibreel (Gabriel) over 1,438 years ago. Fasting in Ramadan is [...]

Women are plenteously single. Many are perplexed, galore ignored.Lonely in fears, waiting in tears. Some women are hurt by the thorns that life hurls on their paths: hearts bleeding,self-worth spilling. Screaming soundlessly to the mirror; crying silently to their pillows. Such singles have to wait much longer than their biological needs can withstand. The call [...]

An egg is like the seed from which life sprouts. It is an ovum like an oven for baking beings to life. The egg: a womb for creatures, where transmuting cells and transmogrifying organisms ultimately transform into pulsating beings. There are oviparous schools of creatures with fins, breathing with gills, swimming in their aquatic world [...]

You know, sometimes, you probably try to avoid looking into the mirror, because you feel ashamed of who you see! Your reflections don’t always impress you, especially, if you look beyond the image in the mirror! What if it's those parts of you that you can’t see in the mirror, the parts you don't even [...]

There's nothing to hide about being human, and there is nothing to be ashamed of when you are in the continuous tense – “being”. In your lifetime, you've learned to crawl, to walk, to run, to pause, to stand still. You’ve whispered and yelled, you’ve kept talking and kept quiet. Your talks have made sense, [...]

Like children, the winds have minds of their own. They have purposes, directions and destinies. They can be strong or weak, violent or gentle. In high speed but short bursts, winds can come in gusty gales or torrid tornadoes. The winds are the artists that design the vast deserts with massive sculptures of sprawling, smooth [...]

Drug addiction reduces a person’s ability to live a normal life. Addicts are generally, unable to finish projects, complete tasks, finish a school, hold a stable job or sustain a healthy relationship. They often have undefined and unrealistic ideas and plans of what they want to do in life. They also use intimidation, manipulation, emotional [...]

What do you bring out of the night? The people of greatness stay awake for some part of the night to design the features of their futures. The people of wisdom stay up to crack into mysteries of their existence. The people of knowledge stay awake to read and learn new things. Those of devotion [...]